Open Educational Resources in SA 2015 - South Africa

Abstract
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The Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D) project is based at the Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching, University of Cape Town, South Africa. Glenda Cox and Henry Trotter of the Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching at the University of Cape Town undertook Sub-project 4 of ROER4D. The project, Research into the Social and Cultural Acceptability of Open Educational Resources in South Africa, aims to describe and explain the barriers to and enablers of Open Educational Resources (OER) contribution at institutions in South Africa. The key objective of the research was to understand why scholars contribute or refuse to contribute their teaching materials as OER. The project utilised a mixed methods approach. Surveys of and interviews with academics at three South African institutions were conducted in March 2015 to understand the conditions under which the contribution and/or use of OER would be considered socially and culturally acceptable. Focusing on academics’ teaching practices at the University of Cape Town (UCT) (urban, contact), the University of South Africa (UNISA) (distance, online/ correspondence), and University of Fort Hare University (rural, contact). The resultant dataset includes the survey (quantitative) and interview (qualitative) data.

Geographic coverage
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The surveys were conducted at three universities in South Africa and the data is not representative of South Africa as a whole.

Analysis unit
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Units of analysis were individuals

Universe
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The survey covered academicand support staff at the three universities in the study.

Kind of data
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Sample survey data [ssd]

Mode of data collection
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Face-to-face [f2f]

Data appraisal
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Age data was collected for age groups. However, there was an overlap between age groups 56-60 and 60-65 in the survey instrument. Respondents for these groups were therefore combined into a 56-65 age group.

{'Abstract': '摘要：

基于南非开普敦大学创新教学与学习中心的研究项目——开放式教育资源发展研究（ROER4D），该项目由该中心Glenda Cox和Henry Trotter负责执行其子项目4。研究旨在阐述并解析南非机构在开放式教育资源（OER）贡献方面的障碍与促进因素。研究的主要目标是探究学者为何愿意或拒绝将他们的教学材料作为OER进行贡献。该项目采用了混合方法的研究手段。于2015年3月对南非三所机构的学者进行了问卷调查和访谈，以了解在何种社会和文化条件下，OER的贡献与/或使用被视为可接受的。研究重点聚焦于开普敦大学（城市、面对面）、南非大学（远程、在线/函授）和福赫雷大学（乡村、面对面）学者的教学实践。所生成的数据集包括定量调查数据和定性访谈数据。

地理覆盖范围：

调查在南非的三所大学进行，数据并不代表整个南非。

分析单位：

分析单位为个人。

总体：

调查覆盖了三所研究大学中的学术和辅助人员。

数据类型：

样本调查数据 [ssd]。

数据收集方式：

面对面 [f2f]。

数据评估：

收集了年龄数据，但调查工具中56-60岁和60-65岁年龄组存在重叠。因此，这些年龄组的受访者被合并为56-65岁年龄组。'}